End of Silence

In the wake of the recent passing of HJR 6 by the Texas House and this story, which highlights everything that is wrong with Texas schools and the marriage of big business and government, I’m left to wonder what the hell I’m still doing in this state.
Oh yeah, the weather, Tex-Mex, and Austin itself.
(BTW, [...]

Max needs bags? Well, so do we, but hopefully not for much longer. Like Max and Courtney, we resorted to using grocery and take-out bags to dispose of our small creature by-products.
The difference is that our small creature is well on her way to using the potty instead. Can I get an amen? With any [...]

Meme Time: Copy this list, leave in the bands you’ve seen perform live. Delete the ones you haven’t and add other ones you’ve seen until they total to 25. The asterisk means that these are bands that the previous person had on his/her list. Two asteriks mean the last 2 people that did this had [...]

As I’ve probably already mentioned, the rest of the family was in Dallas this past weekend. The Wife was attending a Kriya Yoga shindig and, since my parents are still there, the kids spent a fair amount of time at their place.
My mother took both kids to mass on with her. Now, I’m lapsed Catholic. [...]

I’ll give a dollar to the person who can figure out the band and song from which the title is copped. And no, it’s not the frog on Sugar Smacks. Is his name Dig’em Smack?
Since my trackback to his blogging.la post from my last post seems to have failed, I’ll try pinging Wil’s latest post [...]

By now, you’ve probably heard from somewhere about the Star Wars line at Grauman’s Chinese Theater and also about how, as of this moment, Revenge of the Sith isn’t actually playing there.
Blogging.la, the granddaddy site to our own Austin Metblog (btw, there’s a permanent feed of the latest stories in a box somewhere over there [...]

We’re still wading through the insurance morass with the house. Just so we didn’t get too complacent, the transmission on the minivan that we’ve barely had for a year decided to die.
Yes, that’s right, the transmission on a three-year-old car with 38k miles went out. We were seeing signs of the problem last month and [...]

Wow, does John Cornyn suck or what? I was reading something else yesterday related to the contempt for the judicial system coming from the current majority party. It essentially said that the reason that there are so many things being decided by the courts is because the legislature is writing so many stupid laws. If [...]

The site is slow to load today because two of the external sites from which I pull content seem to be down. The moblog block on the right is pulling from Flickr and the block below it pulls from AllConsuming. If they don’t return in the next couple of days, I’ll yank the blocks.
I can’t [...]

We spent the afternoon at the Flyrite Choppers Open House yesterday. I blogged about the generalities over on Metroblogging. It was the first time that either of the kids have had a chance to see me play drums. I took about a 4 year hiatus because it was just too much to be in a [...]